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Your memory seems to fail you. Win98SE was the most stable of the 9x series. ME was the bad one.

by fps_doug2 2y ago

Zambyte 2y ago
Your reading seems to fail you. That's what they said :-)
- theandrewbailey 2y ago
  > Win 98ME Windows ME was not a release of, nor branded with, Windows 98 whatsoever.
  - accrual 2y ago
    Right. And a fun fact for readers, it's technically Windows "Me" (title case) and advertising has it read as "me" as in me the person, not "M.E." as Millenium Edition. Kind of interesting history there - "Me" was intended to show the PC was becoming more personal. I think WinMe added some new "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc. that came with Win2k and later XP which helped drive the personal aspect. Then later "XP" was meant to be "eXPerience" as in a new PC experience. Microsoft was a bit more fun back then.
    - estebank 2y ago
      Part of the thinking behind the "My *" naming for those directories was forcing applications to handle spaces in paths properly.
      - tracker1 2y ago
        That was definitely part of it... as XP SPs released, they locked down application access to read/write where applications typically shouldn't, including in their own Program Files directory, and this did bork some applications even though it was supposed to redirect the changes to a different directory. So many poorly written applications broke through those days. I may be thinking of Vista/Win7 though, the time has muddled my brain a bit.
  - jandrese 2y ago
    No, but in practice it was Win98SE3. Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. There was basically no reason to run WinME instead of WinXP, especially on a new machine.
    - theandrewbailey 2y ago
      > Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. How so? Windows NT and 2000 were not designed for home use, and Windows ME released (September 14, 2000)[0] over a year before Windows XP released (October 25, 2001)[1]. [0] https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/14/microsoft-announces-immediate-availability-of-windows-millennium-edition-windows-me/ https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/14/microsoft-announces-im... [1] https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/24/an-Inside-look-at-the-months-long-process-of-getting-windows-xp-ready-for-release-to-manufacturing/ https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/24/an-Inside-look-at-the-...

Your memory seems to fail you. Win98SE was the most stable of the 9x series. ME was the bad one.

Zambyte 2y ago

Your reading seems to fail you. That's what they said :-)

theandrewbailey 2y ago
> Win 98ME Windows ME was not a release of, nor branded with, Windows 98 whatsoever.
- accrual 2y ago
  Right. And a fun fact for readers, it's technically Windows "Me" (title case) and advertising has it read as "me" as in me the person, not "M.E." as Millenium Edition. Kind of interesting history there - "Me" was intended to show the PC was becoming more personal. I think WinMe added some new "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc. that came with Win2k and later XP which helped drive the personal aspect. Then later "XP" was meant to be "eXPerience" as in a new PC experience. Microsoft was a bit more fun back then.
  - estebank 2y ago
    Part of the thinking behind the "My *" naming for those directories was forcing applications to handle spaces in paths properly.
    - tracker1 2y ago
      That was definitely part of it... as XP SPs released, they locked down application access to read/write where applications typically shouldn't, including in their own Program Files directory, and this did bork some applications even though it was supposed to redirect the changes to a different directory. So many poorly written applications broke through those days. I may be thinking of Vista/Win7 though, the time has muddled my brain a bit.
- jandrese 2y ago
  No, but in practice it was Win98SE3. Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. There was basically no reason to run WinME instead of WinXP, especially on a new machine.
  - theandrewbailey 2y ago
    > Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. How so? Windows NT and 2000 were not designed for home use, and Windows ME released (September 14, 2000)[0] over a year before Windows XP released (October 25, 2001)[1]. [0] https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/14/microsoft-announces-immediate-availability-of-windows-millennium-edition-windows-me/ https://news.microsoft.com/2000/09/14/microsoft-announces-im... [1] https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/24/an-Inside-look-at-the-months-long-process-of-getting-windows-xp-ready-for-release-to-manufacturing/ https://news.microsoft.com/2001/08/24/an-Inside-look-at-the-...